May 10, 2012 -- President Barack Obama announced that he now supports legal recognition of same-sex marriage, the first sitting U.S. president in history to do so. The statement comes on the heels of a vote in North Carolina that banned state recognition of same-sex unions. Ac …
A full year after Obama released his birth certificate, a significant number of Republican officials across the country still are unable to disavow themselves of the notion that the president was not born in this country. This week, a leading Republican candidate in one of the …
Though many politicians sympathize with those who are saddled with exorbitant student debt, Foxx, who chairs the House subcommittee on higher education, had a different take. Appearing on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, the North Carolina congresswoman recounted her own exp …
By James Werrell - [Governor Nikki] Haley was on the show [The View] to plug her new autobiography, “Can’t Is Not An Option.” After a few softball questions from the four hosts, Haley was asked about her views on women’s rights. Inexplicably, Haley volu …
Schlafly says contraception issue contrived [Phyllis] Schlafly, who led a grass-roots fight to prevent ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, spoke Wednesday at The Citadel as part of the military college’s new course, Conservative Intellectual Traditio …
Unable to sell his parents’ ocean-front timeshare for the past year, David Suder became so fed up he offered to give it away. They paid $8,000 for the Orange County, Calif. unit a decade ago, but since there are no willing buyers, and his 81-year-old mother, now a widow, …
By Bob Geary - They gathered last week in Wake Forest [N. Carolina], a convocation of conservative Christians and Republican conservatives—the overlap of politics and religious dogma was total—rehearsing their case for Amendment 1, or as they call it, the Marriage Amendment …
A widening gender gap boosts Obama over Romney President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation's dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of women to his side. In the fifth Swing States sur …
People queuing up for Mega Millions tickets aren't the only ones salivating over the record $540 million jackpot that could be won Friday — some state governments struggling through lean times know a hometown winner would bring a tax bonanza. Taxes on a lump-sum payment …
Two well-placed legal experts have independently told Palmetto Public Record they expect the U.S. Department of Justice to issue an indictment against South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on charges of tax fraud as early as this week. A highly ranked federal official has also priva …
Carolinas has not initiated any private discussions.